> falling from orbit protected by nothing more than a spacesuit and a bag of foam was unlikely to ever become a particularly safe—or enticing—maneuver.
Not with that attitude. Pitch it as the most extreme sporting experience available to humanity and you've got yourself a new commercial space launch market.
Oh hell yeah, imagine hundreds of adrenaline junkies hanging out in inflatable space habitats and jumping off platforms into Earth's gravity with these things, turning it into a sport where which ever space diver that lands closest to the target wins. That and other derivatives will be a multi-billion dollar market right there.